Murray Leinster 3 hr 29 min read

On a world about to be invaded, the only defense is a ragtag company whose stock-in-trade is human talents no science can explain, hunches, premonitions, and impossible knacks for Incorporated hire.

Murray Leinster's 1962 novel is an inventive military space opera built on wild psi talents. Clever, engaging golden-age SF. Read it for vintage Leinster ingenuity, where a firm trading in strange human gifts becomes a beleaguered planet's unlikely last line of defense against conquest.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

3 hr 29 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).